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Alberta anticipates boosted production industry with new film studio
Alberta in western Canada is aiming to boost its production industry with a new film studio. Work started last November on the Calgary Film Centre, a build that could help the city attract more shoots like the TV version of…
Quentin Tarantino boosts Colorado with location filming for The Hateful Eight
Filming for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight has proven a big boost for Telluride, Colorado. The filmmaker’s second Western after Django Unchained has been filming for several weeks and may stay longer than planned as there hasn’t been enough snow…
New BBC period drama Poldark films in Cornwall and at Bottle Yard Studios
Filming for the BBC’s new period drama Poldark was based at The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol, and on location in Cornwall in South-West England. Set in the 1780s, the literary adaptation follows Ross Poldark as he returns to Cornwall…
Mississippi has prolific 2014 with low-budget filming productions
Mississippi hosted a diverse production slate in 2014 but they were mostly low-budget shoots. James Brown biopic Get On Up was the highest-profile movie to film locally. Nineteen movies helped generate overall production spending of around USD 55 million. Producers…
BBC starts filming War And Peace on location in northern Europe and Russia
The BBC has started filming its new TV adaptation of Tolstoy’s War And Peace in Lithuania, Latvia and Russia. Paul Dano and Lily James are leading the cast in the tale that follows several aristocratic Russian families against the backdrop…
Studio Babelsberg in Germany celebrates Oscar wins for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Studio Babelsberg near Berlin has celebrated the success of Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, which has added four Oscars to its awards tally. The movie filmed on the border between Germany and Poland, with Studio Babelsberg as a production…
Drama series Dig returns to Croatia to film more episodes on location
New US drama series Dig has returned to Croatia to film more episodes on location. The show is a murder mystery set in Jerusalem and filmed in the city until last year’s conflict between Israel and Gaza prompted the producers…
BBC films Jimmy McGovern penal colony TV drama Banished near Sydney
RSJ Films and See-Saw Films shot partly on location near Sydney for the BBC’s new period drama series Banished, devised and written by Jimmy McGovern. The story is inspired by the establishment of the British First Fleet’s penal colony in…
National Trust launches map of BBC’s Wolf Hall filming locations
The National Trust has published a map of the UK filming locations used for the BBC’s historical drama Wolf Hall to help boost tourism. Some 40% of the series was filmed on National Trust properties and the organisation is expecting…
Adam Sandler filming Netflix comedy Western The Ridiculous Six in New Mexico
Adam Sandler will spend the next couple of months filming Netflix comedy Western The Ridiculous Six in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The state is a popular Western filming location and recently hosted Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways to Die in…